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ahswtini
Northern Ireland22208 Posts
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nojok
France15845 Posts
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evilfatsh1t
Australia8778 Posts
otherwise you can try some shenanigans by yourself by fking up her jungle as much as possible, but its high risk high reward (since you get no farm yourself). if she goes for a midas its a bit easier though. | ||
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Elurie
4716 Posts
Is there something up with denying towers lately? (MMOs sucked up most of my time and I haven't played much in a while.) In old client, I used Attack Move key to deny towers, while using right-click to deny creeps/allies. But now I cannot deny tower with attack move key, unless I disable the option "Force Right-click Attack". Is there some hidden settings I'm missing, or commands I can use like in the vanilla days? Or does Reborn only allow on/off option where I cannot use separate "deny settings" for different things? | ||
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Cardinalstar16
United States2 Posts
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GtC
United States546 Posts
On February 12 2016 01:17 Cardinalstar16 wrote: I'm currently hovering around 3.6k mmr solo. What are the most important things I can focus on to improve from my mmr to 4k and above? You're probably gonna want to give more detail than that if you want to get some actual help. | ||
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Cardinalstar16
United States2 Posts
You're probably gonna want to give more detail than that if you want to get some actual help. Well I usually play a core roll like mid, carry, or offlane. The things I think that I need to improve on are farming, map awareness, lane control, unnecessary deaths, and pretty much everything else. What are the most essential things to perfect to improving my overall skill in the game? What kind of replays should I be watching? Pro game casts? High mmr pubs? High mmr streams? What are some techniques I should use? Grinding pubs? Bot matches? Coaching? | ||
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Velzi
Finland659 Posts
Both high mmr pubs/streams and pro games are fine, i think watching pros play pubs from player perspective is the best one if u want to improve. | ||
BluemoonSC
SoCal8910 Posts
no one actually tells you what that stuff means tho the TLDR version is - focus on one (AND ONLY ONE) aspect of your gameplay over the course of 10 games. for instance, lets say your goal is to get 50 last hits before 10 minutes in those 10 games. open up a bot game or create a lobby (since its difficult to pick the same hero in the same role every pub game), pick your favorite hero and do that for 10 games. | ||
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the bear jew
United States3674 Posts
On February 12 2016 01:37 Cardinalstar16 wrote: Well I usually play a core roll like mid, carry, or offlane. The things I think that I need to improve on are farming, map awareness, lane control, unnecessary deaths, and pretty much everything else. What are the most essential things to perfect to improving my overall skill in the game? What kind of replays should I be watching? Pro game casts? High mmr pubs? High mmr streams? What are some techniques I should use? Grinding pubs? Bot matches? Coaching? To quote Bruce Lee, 'I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times." Chose something to focus on improving, choose one role, chose a small number of heroes and focus on mastering them. I brought myself from 3600 to 4200 by focusing on one position and a small number of heroes to get really good at them. Be a master of one instead of mediocre at all. That's my opinion. | ||
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evilfatsh1t
Australia8778 Posts
when i first started dota thats what i did; i played clinkz and bloodseeker almost exclusively but that was because i was still getting a feel for the mechanics and how to judge kills and stuff. if youre already at 3k, you know the mechanics and you know generally how to get kills etc. from this point on theres only 2 things you can do, first one being play a HUGE amount of games and the 2nd being watch pros. im not a fan of playing only a handful of heroes because a lot of being good at dota comes from being able to anticipate your enemy's movements/skills etc. if you only play the same heroes you will only learn the same heroes and youre going to face a brick wall when you try to improve because you just dont know wtf everyone else is capable of. play every hero and play a fuckton of games. from a tactical standpoint you will find that you make much better decisions overall (positioning, item choice, map movement, warding etc) if youve played everyone a few times already and know their strengths and weaknesses. as for watching pros, you can watch pubs or competitive matches, it doesnt matter. usually competitive matches are better because you dont see pros trolling much and you can more accurately judge hero strengths etc when everyone is playing the hero correctly. pubs dont show this as well because theres a big skill gap between players to start with. when you watch pros just make the assumption that every thing they do has a reason behind it. literally everything. if you see something unusual or seemingly redundant (eg. a support stutterstepping behind his cores trying to position himself) have a think about why he could be doing that, because theres always a reason. the harsh truth about dota is that the bottom line is you need to grind a ridiculous number of games, and you have to do it whilst actually thinking about what youre doing and how you can improve, rather than just grinding games to kill time or something. | ||
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Birdie
New Zealand4438 Posts
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evilfatsh1t
Australia8778 Posts
id hate to find out what you do consider massive granted i dont play dota anywhere near as much as i used to, but i probably only have like 1500 games total since i got dota 2 and thats been like ~5 years already | ||
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Birdie
New Zealand4438 Posts
On February 12 2016 09:49 evilfatsh1t wrote: 1300 games isnt a massive amount for you? id hate to find out what you do consider massive granted i dont play dota anywhere near as much as i used to, but i probably only have like 1500 games total since i got dota 2 and thats been like ~5 years already I'd consider 2k games in a year to be massive, took me nearly 2 years to get 1600 games (got the number wrong, my bad). 800 games a year is a little over 2 games a day, I guess that's a reasonable amount but not anywhere near as much as someone playing a LOT of Dota. Your number of games isn't even a game a day, which counts as "some Dota". Super casual players play like half a game a day or less even. | ||
TheYango
United States47024 Posts
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Birdie
New Zealand4438 Posts
On February 12 2016 10:35 TheYango wrote: Two games a day is a lot when you consider that most people don't have schedules that actually allow them to play DotA all 365 days a year, so an *average* of two games a day means there will actually be many days where that person plays a lot more than 2 games. Sure, it's a lot, but it's not a "massive" or "huge" amount of dota. If it were then there wouldn't be a good word to describe the people playing 8+ games a day  | ||
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Logo
United States7542 Posts
On February 12 2016 10:35 TheYango wrote: Two games a day is a lot when you consider that most people don't have schedules that actually allow them to play DotA all 365 days a year, so an *average* of two games a day means there will actually be many days where that person plays a lot more than 2 games. A lot of the time I'd just be happy with 2 games a week at this point  . | ||
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BluemoonSC
SoCal8910 Posts
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Pik
Germany176 Posts
Sometimes you can't pause/unpause, sometimes you can. Couldn't find anything in the Wiki, Liquipedia or Youtube... thx | ||
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SpiritoftheTunA
United States20903 Posts
On February 14 2016 03:52 Pik wrote: Can someone explain me the pause/unpause system? Sometimes you can't pause/unpause, sometimes you can. Couldn't find anything in the Wiki, Liquipedia or Youtube... thx in unranked all pick you cant pause until everyone on your team has picked, because ppl used to exploit pauses for counterpicking everyone gets one pause per osmething like 3-5 minutes you can't unpause for 30 seconds if your opponent unpauses with a disconnect on their team allies can always unpause allies' pauses there might be a total pause limit per player per game but im not sure | ||
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